In a time when civil society voices are increasingly dismissed as radical or disloyal, new research led by Ph.D. student Lee ...

A recent survey indicates a sharp decline in global trust towards the United States following Donald Trump's return. The US ...

Both the country and its leader are viewed largely in a negative light across 100 countries surveyed in an annual democracy ...

Under the Trump administration, the U.S. is pulling back from spreading democratic ideals abroad through Radio Free Europe, ...

The world is more divided than ever, but there’s still something (nearly) everyone agrees on: The U.S. is unloved.

The social sector needs new models for understanding what impact might be possible when the systems we operate in fall apart.

"Conspiracy theories are one of the warning lights on the dashboard of democracy." ...

A conversation with scholar Larry Diamond about the state of U.S. democracy.

Going by some decisions taken by US Presidents that have had very negative consequences for the USA itself and other ...

For the first time in its history, the Index classifies the global situation as “difficult ... due to economic hardship in nearly a third of countries globally." The decline is being driven by a ...

The right loves to argue we’re a republic, not a democracy. What’s the difference? THOMAS P. COSTELLO/USA TODAY NETWORK THOMAS P. COSTELLO/USA TODAY NETWORK / USA TODAY NETWORK If you hang ...

On the surface, these seem like separate stories — one about authoritarian repression, the other about economic decline — but they are threads in the same unraveling fabric: a global ...